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Coleman made or tried to make his own pornography, authorities said, sometimes videotaping young girls who were unaware. He also digitally altered existing pornographic images to include some of his former students, according to federal authorities and the indictment.

"This indictment alleges a pattern of disturbing, predatory behavior toward young girls," Neil H. MacBride, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement.

The indictment against Coleman lists nine unnamed victims, at least two of whom were students at a summer camp in Italy where Coleman taught. Coleman either made or tried to produce sexually explicit images of all nine, according to the indictment.

At least two victims were videotaped, according to the indictment.

Coleman also took existing pornographic images and altered them so that they showed his former students from Alexandria and Japan, according to federal authorities and the indictment. It remains unclear how many of those images he created or how many students were shown in them.

Coleman’s defense attorney could not be reached to comment Thursday afternoon.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for MacBride, said Coleman has remained in custody since his arrest. Coleman was suspended immediately after that arrest, said Alexandria schools superintendent Morton Sherman, and school officials fired him on May 12.

Coleman, of Falls Church, came to the Alexandria school system from Fairfax County, where he apparently had a clean record, Sherman said. He was hired in Alexandria in 2005, a school spokeswoman has said.

Sherman said that law enforcement officials initiated the investigation and that they had not told him that any John Adams students were involved. He said school officials were cooperating with investigators, although they had little information to share.

"To this day, we’ve not received any complaints from any parents," Sherman said. "If we did, we’d also turn those quickly over to police."

Sherman said that after Coleman’s arrest, school officials sent letters to parents and held a community meeting so parents could ask questions about the school’s response. He said counselors were on hand to talk to parents and students.

H.L. Ford, the treasurer-elect for the John Adams PTA, called the latest allegations against Coleman "heartbreaking." Ford said she was not concerned for her own sons, 7 and 12, because only one had Coleman as a teacher, and only for about a month, but she said she was "worried for the children that had been in his classroom all year."

"My first thought was . . . ‘Oh my God, has he done something to these children?’" Ford said. "I think, of course as any parent would think, it’s a terrible thing."